Progress in pressure on Iran

Shawarma Mayor "Should we give Obama credit for this progress? I would definitely like to."...."The largest oil trader in the world, Vitol, said Monday it had stopped dealing with Iran, following a report that traders were pulling out of the country as sanctions and US pressure took their toll."

Rush Interviews Karl Rove on His New Book

Rush Limbaugh.com Rush asks Karl Rove: "You were shocked that Ted Kennedy would go after Alito. None of us really were. Were you shocked when they came after you on the Valerie Plame stuff? I mean, at what point did you realize that this was not just the normal ebb and flow of Democrats and Republicans sharing power, that they were out to destroy you and everybody in the administration?"

Tom Hanks: America Wants to ‘Annihilate’ Terrorists Because ‘They’re Different’

Newsbusters "But when it comes to leftist Hollywood, whenever Tinseltown and America meet, you have to brace yourself for it — and by “it” I mean the leftist sucker punch. Throughout, Hanks sounds perfectly reasonable, intelligent and even patriotic for a couple of thousand words. But of course that’s just the lure to get us on his side before we’re walloped with this left cross..."

Help Slate set some ground rules for cell phone etiquette.

Slate "...the key consideration is the phone's potential for distraction: Is it taking you away from the people around you? If so, put it away. I find it very difficult to concentrate on pretty much anything else while I'm engaged with my digital device. That's why I won't text at the dinner table but I will on the couch in front of the television: If you're already distracted by the TV, the phone isn't changing anything."

Marc Thiessen on Keep America Safe

Max Boot "...By focusing so much on the lower-level lawyers, Keep America Safe is missing the real problem. That starts at the top with Attorney General Eric Holder and President Obama, who seem willing to give terrorist defendants more rights than they received under the Bush administration — and more rights than most Americans think they deserve. I would suggest keeping the focus on Obama and Holder, not on underlings who are not the ultimate decision-makers here."

No Allies — But Plenty of Enemies

Victor Davis Hanson "All that raises the question of what exactly are advantages these days of being a friend of the U.S., when neutrals and enemies garner as much of our sympathies?".... "An idealistic America may now decide that it does not want or need special allies like Britain. But that diffidence will eventually mean we have more enemies than ever — as the watching world makes the necessary adjustments and joins those who unabashedly promise them support and protection."

One less “honest and vigilant Muslim” on the loose

Pajamas Media "It was only a few hours after this latest incitement to murder and mayhem that Pakistani officials announced that they had captured Gadahn."...."But where, I wonder, will Eric Holder propose trying this disgusting person?" Roger Kimball

Don't Embrace Eric Massa

Washington Examiner "Reliable sources on Capitol Hill say the House ethics report on Eric Massa will be damning. Obamacare opponents, like Glenn Beck, might want to think twice before indulging Massa and letting this Democratic creep become the posterboy of Obamacare opposition." John McCormack

The folly of rushing into green energy schemes

American Thinker "But as low-quality, poorly designed solar plants sprang up on Spain's plateaus, Spanish officials came to realize that they would have to subsidize many of them indefinitely, and that the industry they had created might never produce efficient green energy on its own."...."Subsidies fed the boom, which was unsustainable because solar energy is inefficient and uneconomic."

Government outrages day by day

Neal Boortz "Ionia kindergartener suspended for making gun with hand"; this and more like it here.

DEMONIZING THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY

Neal Boortz "According to the most recent Fortune 500 rankings, health insurers are not even among the top-30 United States industries in profit-margin. Health insurers rank 35th, with a profit-margin of just 2.2 percent -- less than one-fifth the profit-margin of railroads. None of the ten largest American health insurers made profits of more than 4.5 percent, and two of them lost money. Health insurers' collective profit-margin is less than one-eighth that of drug companies and less than one-seventh that of companies that sell medical products or equipment. It's also less than that of medical facilities. Yet when was the last time you heard President Obama rail against greedy hospitals?"

Seven Muslims Arrested in Ireland over plot to assassinate cartoonist Lars Vilks

Atlas Shrugs "Seven Muslims were arrested in the Irish Republic today over an alleged plot to assassinate a Swedish cartoonist who depicted the Prophet Mohammed with the body of a dog, police said. Al-Qa'ida [translation -Islamic centcom or HQ] put a $100,000 bounty on the head of cartoonist Lars Vilks after a newspaper published his cartoon."